salt

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a food ingredient, seasoning, condiment, and preservative.
2. (countable, uncountable) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
3. (countable, uncommon) A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
4. (countable, slang) A sailor (also old salt).
5. (countable, uncountable) A sequence of random data added to plain text data (such as passwords or messages) prior to encryption or hashing, in order to make brute force decryption more difficult.
6. (countable, uncountable) A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
7. (obsolete, uncountable) Flavour; taste; seasoning.
8. (obsolete, uncountable) Piquancy; wit; sense.
9. (countable, obsolete) A dish for salt at table; a salt cellar.
10. (countable, historical, in-plural, uncountable) Epsom salts or other salt used as a medicine.
11. (figuratively, uncountable) Skepticism and common sense.
12. (Internet, uncountable) Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
13. (UK, historical, uncountable) The money demanded by Eton schoolboys during the montem.

Adj

1. Of water: containing salt, saline.
2. Treated with salt as a preservative; cured with salt, salted.
3. Of land, fields etc.: flooded by the sea.
4. Of plants: growing in the sea or on land flooded by the sea.
5. Related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use.
6. (figuratively, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
7. (figuratively, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) in heat.
8. (archaic, colloquial) Costly; expensive.

Verb

1. (transitive) To add salt to.
2. (intransitive) To deposit salt as a saline solution.
3. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks for the preservation of the timber.
4. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
5. To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
6. (transitive) To insert or inject something into an object to give it properties it would not naturally have.
7. (transitive) To sprinkle throughout.
8. To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to make brute-force decryption more resource-intensive.
9. (transitive) To render a thing useless.
10. To render a thing useless.

Conceptos

sal

🧂

salar

salado

salino

echar sal

sal química

acecinar

poner sal

salado salada

salero

salina

salobridad

salinero

salpresar

🧂

sales químicas

echar poner sal

adobar

sazonar con sal

animar

curar con sal

salada

salpicar

sazonar

Sinónimos

salty

table salt

🧂

saline

sodium chloride

pickle

alkali

corn

🌽

lye

alkaline

season with salt

briny

common salt

cure

brackish

sea

🌊

saltiness

salted

salinity

add salt to

marinade

seasoning

bitter

sort

spice

spice up

preserve

make tasty

salt water

season

be salted

be salty

salt pan

brackish ground

salinate

stir salt into

salsamentarious

haline

NaCl

brackishness

brine

condiment

conserve

dun

flavor

flavour

lard

ocean

🌊

pickled

piquancy

poignancy

Traducciones

sel

🧂

Salz

🧂

zout

🧂

sale

🧂

sal

🧂

salzen

🧂

saler

🧂

salare

🧂

αλάτι

sal

🧂

sal

🧂

tuz

🧂

salato

salé

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/sɒlt/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: salt

Heredado de inglés antiguo: sealt

Cognado con latín: sāl

In summary

PIE word
*séh₂ls
From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls (“salt”). Doublet of sal, ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt".